Fasten your seatbelts because this is LONG. In high school I enjoyed reading flamewars between anti-s/m people and their targets, just bec...

I was just rereading the transcript of the May 30 IACC meeting and I came across a particular saying that Francis Collins used in his not-es...

I love the Internet: I have a mildly autistic daughter. She's 11, and she shares a great many of your reported behaviors and, I think, f...

Henry Darger was an ASD person who lived in the Midwest, like me. Like me he enjoyed praying and arts and crafts. He was treated badly when...

this morning I was talking to my friend Ralph when I left to get a soda. When I returned to my computer Ralph had gone to bed (he lives in C...

I’m tempted to say “it was easy to be a martyr,” but that isn’t what I mean. It was very hard to be a martyr, but it was equally hard for e...

One of my first posts was about this but the gaslighting post made me think about it more. Functional people cannot just yell when a noise m...

Gaslighting is when you try to keep a person from standing up for herself by making her doubt her own perception of things. The term comes f...

Niyatee asked me another question. I like how I'm setting her up as this strawnormalperson, who exists to ask me questions so I can shed...

" It is a tale/Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury/Signifying nothing. " Even if you haven't read The Sound and the Fury ...